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John Christopher McCrudden

LLB(QUB 1974), LLM(Yale 1975), MA(Oxon 1980), DPhil(Oxon 1981), DCL(Oxon 2017), LLD(hc), FBA. CBE

Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law QUB

Member PL&AElected in 2018

Christopher McCrudden is professor of human rights and equality law at the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast, and L. Bates Lea Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. He holds an LLB from QUB, an LLM from Yale Law School, and a DPhil and DCL from Oxford University. He is called to the Bars of England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Ireland, and is a member of Blackstone Chambers. He is the academic member of the Judicial Studies Board for Northern Ireland. QUB awarded him an honorary LLD in 2006. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2008, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2018, and an Honorary Bencher of the Bar of Northern Ireland in 2022. His most recent publication is an edited collection, The Law and Practice of the Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

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